(uh oh, looks like i'll have to upload the pics another time)
So Thursday came along and I decided today I would nip into town to watch a film and to hand in my Secret Santa pressie while I was at it. I went to watch Catching Fire after finishing the book a couple days ago, was disappointed in it, not because I felt it missed out on a couple of key moments but just generally wasn't as good as it could have been, or maybe it was because I was looking forward to it. But while I was in the cinema I took a few minutes to rip tickets and direct people to their seats, it was surprisingly fun after not doing it for so long. Did get a few funny looks as I was wearing my normal clothes. That night I decided to watch After Earth in the Insyplex, it was good, not what I was quite expecting but enjoyable all the same.
Friday came along and it is the last day of getting chemo, the last planned one anyway. Finally got results back from the scan I had four weeks ago and all the swollen glands had either disappeared or where miniscule and this will be my second chemo from getting the scan, so the miniscule ones are probably now even smaller. I thought I would be happier to hear this. I quickly read down the review of what their findings were from the scan and after all the stuff about the chemo I noticed there was a part on lesions on my left abdomen wall, I asked him where that would be and pointed towards where I get the pain in my stomach so that could explain that bit and he said he would refer it to the X-ray committee to see if they can find anything from it.
During the break of the hospital I went to the cinema to go and see Anchorman 2, it was much longer than I thought it would be but very enjoyable, while I was leaving there and about to go for lunch, I got a call from the hospital to come back and get the chemo and so I went to the shop on the way and got some snacks and headed up to get the stuff. They took me into one of the side rooms this time and after getting the chemo I just went to sleep. That evening I basically ate and ate and when I stopped eating I felt nauseous so I just kept eating, watched Tower Heist and went to sleep.
Next morning I felt pretty good, no nausea and didn't seem too tired, so I had a couple things I wanted to get done today but I don't know if I'll do them or leave them till Monday, in the end I got them done and out of the way, in the evening had a nice burger from the chippy round the corner and in the evening watched Love Actually as it's supposed to be a Christmas film.
Sunday was a fairly quiet day, only main thing of note was watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, it isn't Christmas till that's watched, and then had an early night.
Monday came along again and I decided that I would go and watch the Hobbit and pick up my Secret Santa pressie, the film is good if you completely ignore any story from the book, and basically they have bought the name and decided to do whatever they like with it. I went to see it in the High Frame Rate as I did with the first one but this one seemed to be so much better and wasn't as disjointed in the fast moving scenes. That night went up to a friend's house for a Christmas party.
Tuesday... Christmas FestivitEves, felt a little tired today after the party last night but was still lots to do, the ISS was going over and there was and Iridium flare as well, got some shots of the ISS and a video of the flare, turned out better than I thought they would and then headed out for the Christmas FestivitEves in town, it's always a good night. Christmas day I got woken up by my mum to exchange presents and later went to my brother's and sister's houses to give them their presents and home to have our own Christmas dinner. It was a nice day and was great seeing the kids' faces, they were so excited. On Boxing Day we had everyone round at the house for dinner and in the evening went to a friends' house, on the way home there was a lot of damage to fences and houses around the place with the strong winds.
The next morning I got a call from a friend who is back from China for a while and he wanted to head out into town tonight with others that are back in Belfast too for a while and to be honest I could have seen it far enough as I will be heading out tomorrow night as well, but it's not often I am well and not working when they're back, so I couldn't miss the opportunity. It was a great night and really enjoyed it, it's been a few years since we had all got together like that and will probably be a few more until it happens again unfortunately.
By Saturday morning I was truly and utterly done out, but only one more night left of boozing then a bit of a break until New Years, went round to Victoria's for a few drinks then headed into the Empire the watch Ages of Rock, they were very good and really enjoyed it. Next morning I didn't even bother surfacing till near lunch time. One thing about the week, I never had a really bad hangover, no sore heads or anything which I was surprised about as well I haven't drank like that in a very, very long time, but it's not every week you and your friends all get the time to go out. Was a great week but I don't think I could have taken much more of it. Sunday and Monday were spent watching TV and football, and playing on the PS4 and so onto Tuesday the last day of the year, started off by doing this as the rain had woke me up and I was thinking about the last year the same things over and over so I thought, why think about it when you could just write about it and that's what I'll do.